Work is finishing up on the Morey’s Bridge Dam in Taunton, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

“We’re still nearing the finish line on the project,” said Michael Verseckes, spokesman for MassDOT. “There is still some concrete work required at the footing and the wall of the dam.”

The dam was part of a $4.3 million project that included the replacement of the Morey’s Street Bridge, which runs above the dam. The project started last March.

The contractor for the project is Lowell-based S&R Corporation.

“Shortly, the contractor will begin placing riprap in the channel of the river and the final course of pavement on the bridge and abutments,” Verseckes said. “The bridge itself is open for vehicular travel and the concrete sidewalks are complete, as well as two of three layers of pavement on the bridge and the approaches.”

Verseckes said there was some delay in the project, caused by a “substantial amount” of precipitation during the winter.

The state ordered the antiquated dam to be replaced more than five years ago, months before a volunteer group built a temporary cofferdam at the site.

The new dam features a fish ladder and an eel ramp, MassDOT said. It’s intended to help the environment, by allowing the free passage of fish from the adjoining riverway.

The former Morey’s dam, which was located nearly underneath the old bridge, did not allow fish passage, MassDOT said.

The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries previously said it would monitor fish passage using one of the first video fish counting systems to be installed in Massachusetts at the site.